Globe has mostly been ignoring them over the last week or so:
"Aide, at Wellesley, backs White House in IRS controversy" by Jaclyn Reiss | Globe Correspondent, June 01, 2013
Before delivering the keynote speech at Wellesley College’s 135th commencement Friday, Valerie Jarrett, senior adviser to President Obama, defended the administration’s handling of its recent troubles, including the targeting of conservative groups by Internal Revenue Service officials who were reviewing applications for nonprofit status
Although many Americans have expressed outrage and concern over the singling out of the groups by the IRS, and over the Department of Justice’s combing through phone records of journalists at the Associated Press, Jarrett said in the interview that the mood of the administration is “very upbeat.”
Yeah, now that the media is back in line.
“In any given day, our administration has about 2 million employees, and things happen,” Jarrett said. “We put in process procedures to make sure if there has been any wrongdoing, there will be appropriate consequences, and we will move on.”
And even with the scandals at the forefront of daily national news, Jarrett said she had no doubts about the administration’s conduct, and stressed that White House staff members are concentrating on moving past the incidents....
Where, because I just checked and it sure hasn't been my Globe.
The comments came before Jarrett addressed the 574 young women who graduated from Wellesley.
At the all-girls college known for graduates such as two of the three female secretaries of state — Hilary Clinton and Madeleine Albright — Jarrett, a Stanford University graduate, laced her speech with female empowerment, and jabbed at those who might disagree with that message....
I'm not saying I disagree, but I wonder how much empowerment is in the Muslim hut when a female president(?) sends down a drone missile. Albright is famous for saying the sanctioned starving of half-a-million Iraqi kids was worth it -- when the guy wasn't even developing weapons. And who is being partisan now?
That's not an endorsement of Kerry, either. Seems every time we get a new SecofState they are worse than the last one.
The Wellesley ceremony was also tinged with sadness, as the graduates remembered a classmate who died in December and the Boston Marathon bombings....
Yeah, yeah, let's all show worship of that staged and scripted event. Crisis drills gone "live."
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"Another damaging IRS video emerges" Associated Press, June 01, 2013
WASHINGTON — In the latest black eye for the Internal Revenue Service, the agency provided Congress on Friday with another video featuring its employees, this one showing about a dozen of them line dancing on a stage.
The video of the IRS workers practicing their dance moves, which lasts just under three minutes, comes weeks after it was revealed that agency workers produced two other videos parodying the ‘‘Star Trek’’ and ‘‘Gilligan’s Island’’ TV shows.
Well, other than picking over political enemies lists and auditing their filings it looks like the IRS doesn't have much to do. Whether it is porn on the computer, boozing it up, accepting invitations to drug-laced lobbyist parties, or all the other creative things government agents find to do, nice to know its all a big good time in this age of austerity.
The latest recording cost about $1,600 and was produced to be shown at the end of a 2010 training and leadership conference held in Anaheim, Calif., said IRS spokeswoman Michelle Eldridge. At a time when most government agencies are coping with across-the-board spending cuts by furloughing workers and finding other savings, that conference has become the target of a report a Treasury inspector general plans to release next week.
The report will be the subject of a hearing Thursday by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, that panel said Friday.
The IRS is also under fire for targeting conservative groups applying for tax-exempt status between 2010 and 2012.
All three videos were provided in response to a request by a senior member of the House Ways and Means Committee, Rep. Charles Boustany, R-La.
The IRS said the video was ‘‘unacceptable and an inappropriate use of government funds.’’
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I checked the last two weeks worth of Globes (save Sundays), and that's been it. folks.
